William Blake Flashcards
tough, fibrous tissue
sinew
an archaic form of do
dost
valley
vale
meadow
mead
the quality of being made up of exactly similar parts facing each other; regularity; uniformity
symmetry
gentle; humble
meek
quickly detached
plucked
rustic
rural
happiness; joy
glee
a large, heavy block of steel or iron with a flat top on which metals pounded into shape with a hammer
anvil
“Did he who made the Lamb make thee?”
symbolism in “The Tyger”
a shepherd
whom Blake envisions himself to be in “Piping Down the Valleys Wild”
“In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?”
where the Creator might have created the Tyger
whom the speaker addresses
a lamb
“And what shoulder, and what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?”
“What dread hand?”
how the Creator could have created the Tyger
piping of songs in a wild valley; a laughing child on a cloud speaking
stanza 1 imagery in “Piping Down …”
serves as a muse for Blake’s poetry, his “songs of innocence.”
a child
What kind of immortal power could create such a creature?
the main rhetorical question Blake asks in “The Tyger”
“For He calls Himself a Lamb.
He is meek, and He is mild,
He became a little child.”
Jesus Christ
“What the hammer? What the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?”
Blacksmith imagery
